libftdi-config command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix libftdi-config command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

libftdi-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libftdi-config: command not found

In Ubuntu libftdi-config is provided by libftdi-dev package.

libftdi-dev is:

This package contains the header files and static library needed to compile applications that use libftdi.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libftdi-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libftdi-dev.

sudo apt -y install libftdi-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libftdi-dev

In this tutorial we learn how to fix libftdi-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.